Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Department for Business and Trade; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the UK is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their cutting-edge AWS developer platform. The role involves application performance monitoring and building scalable platforms. Key qualifications include experience with AWS, Terraform, and Docker. Join a committed team focused on delivering reliable internet services.

Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Azure.
• Proficient in AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild.
• Familiar with Terraform and AWS Copilot.
• Skilled in Docker and Elastic Container Service.

Responsibilities

• Provide application performance monitoring and metrics aggregation.
• Build and scale the product platform and participate in on-call rota.
• Streamline deployment processes to reduce downtime.

Skills

Amazon Web Services

Azure

AWS CodePipelines

AWS CodeBuild

Terraform

Docker

Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and support DBT services running on the platform. We are seeking Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to ensure our internet services work as users expect.

Responsibilities

• Provide application performance monitoring, exception/log/metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD pipelines to support development teams.
• Evangelise service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets with product teams and help negotiate them.
• Build and scale the global product platform and participate in an on-call rota with additional allowance.
• Roll out observability tooling to enhance system monitoring and incident response; streamline deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Azure.
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild.
• Terraform and AWS Copilot (CloudFormation).
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Python and Django framework.
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS).
• Sentry and Redis/ElastiCache.

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